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David Hinchliffe Delivered the PIA (Qld) 2017 Keeble Lecture. His Presentation, David Hinchliffe delivered the PIA (Qld) 2017 Keeble Lecture. His presentation, "THE ART OF PLANNING... (or, “Things are Great”)" is set out below. BACKGROUND David Hinchliffe has had a unique career straddling the 3 P’s — politics, planning and painting. As a former Deputy Lord Mayor of Australia's largest urban authority, he was a member of the Council's ground-breaking Urban Renewal Committee and Chairman responsible for Planning and Economic Development from 2004-2008. He served in Civic Cabinet for 17 years and for 25 years represented Brisbane's CBD and inner city suburbs to the north. Before his election in 1988, he was a practising artist. Since his retirement from politics, he has returned fulltime to painting. Like his politics, his subject matter is urban, focusing on painting the great cities of the world. He is represented by 12 galleries around the world and exhibits regularly in New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo as well as Brisbane and Melbourne, with more than 90 solo exhibitions under his belt. THE ART OF PLANNING... (or, “Things are Great”) At the outset I want to thank Michael Leunig for his inestimable brilliance, his sardonic wickedly dark and sarcastic humour. I have borrowed from his book ‘The Essential Leunig’ to help illustrate some of the points I will make in this address and to hopefully help prevent you from falling asleep. He has also set the tone for my address... As well, I have relied on the great wealth of historical photos held by the State Library, the occasional assistance of some artistic mates — Vincent Van Gogh, Rubes and Michelangelo to name a few — and on Mr Google. If you’re not amused by the cartoons I hope you’re at least a little fascinated by the old photos and perhaps bemused by my use of the Old Masters. What could be more dangerous than asking an opinionated politician for an opinion?... Well, I’d say there are two things more dangerous. One is to ask an opinionated EX-politician for his or her view and perhaps the second is to ask someone who is both an opinionated ex-politician AND an opinionated artist. Serving politicians have to try to be at least occasionally diplomatic and even charming. Ex- politicians don’t. They can insult and offend at will. Ex-politicians like our friend up here can say anything they like as they’re free from the constraints of politics. Artists on the other hand are free from the constraints of the real world. Many artists are notoriously individualistic (perhaps some would say eccentric) in their view of the world. And they are even more likely to tell you what they think...and that, of course, is the most dangerous thing of all. In my case you've got the double whammy -- both as a highly opinionated practising artist and as a highly opinionated EX-politician. Firstly, I want to thank you for the great honour of being asked to present the Keeble lecture. I have to admit that when I was asked by John Brannock I was a bit confused and a bit alarmed. I started reading the brilliant addresses of former Keeble lecturers and my alarm turned to panic. So, I’ve thought about all those endless meetings over a quarter of a century where I sat across the table from local planning giants like Michael Kerry, Trevor Reddacliff, Phil Heywood, John Brannock, Jeff Humphries, Peter Cumming, Terry Conway, Cassandra Sun, Wendy Chadwick and so many more and I’ve tried to distil something from their wisdom. Let's start by examining the role of the planner and the way the real world shapes planning. I suppose if you read the Bible and subscribe to it, you could make the case that the original town planner was God. He was clearly bored with his empty void and all that relentless infinity...and decided one day he’d make the world. It seemed to start out quite well. He created a beautiful park, a bit like my favourite urban park, Central Park. God didn’t design Central Park. (Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux did after they won a design competition in 1858. ) God made Eden but without a design competition, without public tenders and without public input. It all seemed to work pretty well. There was a nice town centre which featured a prominent apple tree. (We'll come back to that in a moment…) God didn't have a traffic problem. Animals just grazed contentedly together. Even the lions sat down with the lambs apparently and everyone got on. Presumably there was a lot of natural composting and so there was no need for sewerage systems. I'm sure God would have made sure there was an ideal supply or rain and freshwater so no need for water reticulation infrastructure. There were no dramatic disasters like earthquakes or global warming to contend with. There was no hard stand area (no bitumen roads no expensive brick paving and no rooves) so no need for stormwater infrastructure. It was a strictly low budget low-profile, low-rise development. God didn't have a density problem either. There were just two people to accommodate - Adam and Eve. And there were NO NIMBY neighbours who were worried about what Adam and Eve were getting up to on their plot. But as we know with every perfect scenario there always has to be a snake in the grass. The serpent whispers in Eve's ear that she shouldn't be contented about her current Eco-friendly low-carbon footprint environment. (Maybe the serpent in this story is a metaphor for the land developer. ) What she really needs is an upmarket 3 storey, 6 bedroom Macmansion with media room, entertainment room all the mod cons, garage for half a dozen cars (which haven’t been invented yet) spa, pool and leaf blower... So how did it all end for Adam and Eve and the Eden Heights Estate...? We know that God experienced what all novice town planners experience when they start practising the art and science of town planning...chronic disappointment. Even for poor old God the real world spoilt what seemed like a good idea at the time. Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden to face a life of red tape, infrastructure planning, public consultation, plot ratios, tangential rectangles, disputation with NIMBY neighbours, endless regulation, building and town planning applications...in other words Hell on Earth. Thus, ladies and gentlemen, the profession of town planning was born. And contrary to popular mythology that says prostitution is the world's oldest profession, I contend, that honour belongs to town planning. Not only that, I contend that Original Sin and Town Planning are intimately and inextricably linked! Now why is it that when fresh-faced, bright eyed young idealistic town planners emerge from the warm cocoon of tertiary institutions into the bright glare and harsh unfair reality of the world, it's only a matter of time before they look like this... I once asked a planner what made her fellow planners so 'different'? She paused briefly and responded, "You must understand that we start our working lives wanting to change the world for the better... and then,” she said, “the reality of the world sets in." It was such a resoundingly painful observation that I've remembered it for years. It's also why I stopped encouraging my sons to pursue careers in town planning. Is it an accurate assessment or was it just one person venting spleen on a particularly bad day at the office? I suspect that like all exaggerations there is an element of truth buried in there. I say at the outset I am not now nor have I ever been a town planner. I have never studied town planning, I've spoken on many occasions to town planning students and I am prepared to admit here publicly I have friends who are known to be town planners. (They’re such nice people I overlook their background). (I like to think of this as Leunig’s depiction of me on the right with a group of my town planning friends) I haven't noticed a particularly gloomy and depressed attitude among them. In fact, they generally seem a pretty buoyant and happy lot. Maybe that's because they've reconciled themselves to the ways of the world. Perhaps they no longer believe that the world can be so easily fixed. Maybe they've made their peace with the world. I’m not sure... But I want to share a secret. Planners are not alone. Lawyers, teachers, doctors, journalists in fact just about all the professions start from the principle that they'd like to make the world a better place. Then reality hits. Believe it or not, even most politicians start their political careers wanting to make the world a better place... Successful town planners are those who blend reality with theory, who are determined to get good outcomes, but flexible enough to know that planning involves compromise. Planners have to deal with the demands of the political process, the demands of the wider community, the demands of economic reality, the demands of development and growth and industry. It is one of the most demanding of professions. And fundamentally planners, unlike most other professions, rely on others to achieve the desired outcome. You have to have politicians on side in order to codify the planning strategies and regulations. You generally have to have the public on side before you even get the consent of the politicians.
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